He visits Eumaeus, the swineherd, who happens to be hosting a disguised Odysseus.

The oracle also features in Odysseus's fictive yarn about himself told to the swineherd Eumaeus: Odysseus, he tells Eumaeus, has been seen among the Thesprotians, having gone to inquire of the oracle at Dodona whether he should return to Ithaca openly or in secret ( as the disguised Odysseus is actually doing ).

Father and son meet ; Odysseus identifies himself to Telemachus ( but still not to Eumaeus ), and they decide that the Suitors must be killed.

Accompanied by Eumaeus, Odysseus returns to his own house, still pretending to be a beggar.

Having done so, he proceeds to slaughter the suitors — beginning with Antinous whom he finds drinking from Odysseus ' cup — with help from Telemachus, Athena and two servants, Eumaeus the swineherd and Philoetius the cowherd.

In his old age Mentor was a friend of Odysseus who placed Mentor and Odysseus ' foster-brother Eumaeus in charge of his son Telemachus, and of Odysseus ' palace, when Odysseus left for the Trojan War.

Bonaventura Genelli, Odysseus sits by the fire as Eumaeus discovers Telemachus at the entrance of his hut

In Homer's Odyssey, Eumaeus is the first mortal that Odysseus meets after his return to Ithaca after fighting in the Trojan War.

Although he does not recognise his old master — Odysseus is in disguise — and has his misgivings, Eumaeus treats Odysseus well, offering food and shelter to one whom he thinks is a mere indigent.

On being pushed to explain himself, Odysseus spins a distorted tale, misleading Eumaeus into believing that he is the son not of Laertes but of Castor.

God-fearing, suspicious, and scrupulous, Eumaeus delivers probably the oldest extant example of literary sarcasm when, after Odysseus offers a bargain entailing that he be thrown off a cliff should he lose, he answers:

In Eumaeus ' hut is Odysseus in disguise.

With Odysseus sitting beside Eumaeus and Telemachus, the audience is especially aware of this relationship.

During the slaughter of the suitors, Eumaeus assists Telemachus and Odysseus as well.

) Eumaeus sacrifices a pig with prayer for his unrecognizable master Odysseus.

* In Greek mythology, Eumaeus ( or Eumaios ) was Odysseus ' swineherd.

Japan name Yumaiosu is the katakana ortography of English pronunciation of Eumaeus, the pig-guardian of Odysseus in Homer's poem.

Eumaeus is generous in his offerings to guests and gods ( Hermes in particular ) and so fair-minded as to strive to divide meals equally between everyone he feeds.

:' Eumaeus, what a noble hound that is over yonder on the manure heap: his build is splendid ; is he as fine a fellow as he looks, or is he only one of those dogs that come begging about a table, and are kept merely for show?

He finds his way to the hut of one of his own slaves, the swineherd Eumaeus.

He disembarks on the coast of Ithaca and makes for Eumaeus ’ s hut.

He then turns his arrows on the Suitors and with the help of Athena, Telemachus, Eumaeus and Philoteus the cowherd, he kills all the Suitors.

The shipbuilding Phaeacians then loan him a ship to return to Ithaca, where he is aided by the swineherd Eumaeus, meets Telemachus, regains his household, kills the Suitors, and is reunited with his faithful wife, Penelope.

With the help of his son Telemachus, Athena, and Eumaeus, the swineherd, he killed all of them except Medon, who had been polite to Penelope, and Phemius, a local singer who had only been forced to help the suitors against Penelope.

From Sparta Telemachus returned home ; and on his arrival there, he found his father, with the swineherd Eumaeus.

In Greek mythology, Eumaeus (, Eumaios ) was Odysseus's swineherd and friend.

Having heard such assurances all too often, and been deceived by a prevaricator from Aetolia, Eumaeus has become inured to them.

During his master's long absence, Eumaeus acquires from the Taphians a servant, Mesaulius, with his own ostensibly meagre resources.

Eumaeus also welcomes Odysseus's son, Telemachus, when he returns from his voyage to Pylos and Sparta.

When Telemachus returns, he visits Eumaeus as soon as he gets off his boat, as Athena directed him.

Eumaeus greets Telemachus as a father, expressing his deep worry while Telemachus was gone and his relief now that is safely back.

Homer even uses a simile to reiterate the father-son relationship between Telemachus and Eumaeus.

His films, Tractor Drivers ( 1939 ), The Swineherd and the Shepherd ( 1941 ), and his most famous, Cossacks of the Kuban ( 1949 ) all starred his wife, Marina Ladynina.

Image: Gauguin. swineherd. 750pix. jpg | The Swineherd, Brittany, ( 1888 )

We may therefore take it as certain that the real name of the Swineherd was not Eoves, Eofes, or even Eofa, but Eof.

Alison Prince, author of Hans Christian Andersen: The Fan Dancer, claims that Andersen received a gift of a ruby and diamond ring from the king after publications of " The Emperor's New Clothes " and " The Swineherd "— tales in which Andersen voices a satirical disrespect for the court.

Knapp argued that " It is impossible that Eoves should have been the Swineherd ’ s name for several reasons.

We may therefore take it as certain that the real name of the Swineherd was not Eoves, Eofes, or even Eofa, but Eof.

* Swineherd, Askoxford. com

* Swineherd, Bartleby. com

File: Gauguin. swineherd. 750pix. jpg | Paul Gauguin, The Swineherd, 1888

Having " adopted the optimistic, dramatic and unabashedly lyrical style favored by Soviet leaders ", Khrennikov shot to fame in 1941, with the " Song of Moscow " (, meaning " Swineherd and Shepherd ") from his music score for the popular Soviet film They Met in Moscow, for which he was awarded the Stalin Prize.